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December 2015

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in December 2015.

Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.

Activity record

17

2 vs prev

Apps launched

379

Cumulative apps

283

-16 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.70

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

5%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +2, reviews -16.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Cart customization2 launched
  2. 2Analytics2 launched
  3. 3Product variants2 launched
  4. 4Shipping2 launched
  5. 5Accounts and login1 launched
  6. 6Ads1 launched
  7. 7Chat1 launched
  8. 8Custom products - Other1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell30 reviews
  2. 2Discounts23 reviews
  3. 3Email marketing23 reviews
  4. 4SEO23 reviews
  5. 5Product bundles18 reviews
  6. 6Pop-ups16 reviews
  7. 7Chat14 reviews
  8. 8Banners14 reviews
Older: November 2015All issuesNewer: January 2016

This record is intentionally aggregate. Apps Almanac is derived market intelligence; we do not republish per-app Shopify data on public surfaces. Per-app signals (scores, trajectories, components) are available inside the app for signed-in users.

Apps Almanac is an independent service - not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Shopify Inc. "Shopify" is a trademark of Shopify Inc. We analyze only public listing data. We do not train or fine-tune any AI model on the scraped data.

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How these numbers are computed: methodology.